US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Dec. 23 for "Porous metal coupon with sealed cavity for repairing component, component with same and related method" (South Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,713, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Porous metal coupon with sealed cavity for repairing component, component with same and related method" was invented by Stanley Frank Simpson (Greenville, S.C.), Jacob Andrew Salm (Simpsonville, S.C.), James Warren Pemrick (Troy, N.Y.), Mark Lawrence Hunt (Greenville, S.C.) and Nathan Nicholas Ostrout (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal coupon for repairing a component includes an additively manufactured (AM) metal member having a sealed cavity in an interior of the AM metal member, and a porous region around the sealed ...